Brilliantly explained 🙂 The very first setting with Vol up, Tone way down and Dist below 12 - is that one setting which makes this extremely pleasing with a clean Amp setting (which I used it with) and yes the All 12 setting is what puts people off 🙂

Thanks Warren for this world of information you provide us with. It is absolutely cherished.

A really terrific video, great explanations and walk throughs and great playing! Thanks!

Wonderful video and lovely playing 🤩 Everyone should experience SD9!

Great video! I've loved and used the SD-9 for a long while and this video NAILS the experience.

superb playing mate.

Awesome playing and superb tone man!

This cleared up so much for me on the SD9. Thank you for such an insightful demo and explaining!

Well done demo and great playing!

Bro! What a great video. Thanks a lot for sharing

Awesome demo

Great video thank you. Very interesting the stacking with the OD9 and the hairy sound produced by the humbukers.

Great video, thanks for sharing!

very nice video! thanks for the detail on the explanation

Great vid and playing! This has to be the best overview of the SD9 I have seen. Especially, since you used other guitars.I subscribed instantaneously !

Thanks Warren. This video has helped so much. I think this video has one of the most detailed explanations about the SD9. You can clean up so easily with just the volume Knob. Stacked mine with the Jan Ray. Don't need anything else. Just the guitar volume Knob. 🙂

very cool video !! super useful !

Amazing video, thank you so much!

Great video !

This really is the best video on the SD9 I have ever seen. It shows how you really have to think your chain though. I have tried my SD9 so many times because I am a Landau fanboy and put it back in the drawer after ten minutes. This has taught me otherwise 😂

By far the best video on any effects unit I’ve seen, the tasty playing is just the fucking cherry on top :)

Scott henderson style 🎸🎶👍👏

Very informative and helpful, thank you! Great playing also! I have the SD9 and I really like it, its open and articulate and does not cut the bass. I use the tubescreamer as well in the same board : to me, it seems that the TS9 is a bit more compressed and I can get more sustain from it than the SD9. Both are very useful and stack well together. I use the SD9 sometimes as an overdrive with the gain super low, its a very versatile pedal.

Gonna have to buy one of these. Love the emulations on the Helix and Axe FX 3.

Awesome stuff... As a Landau Fanboy I loved seeing the SD-9 and the Voodoo-1 together in action!

Fantastic video, thanks for this Warren!!

Best! Thank you very much! Much love!

So helpful

Wow, I'd like to say thanks for the in depth explanation of the values of tweaking pedals. Ive never been one to change pedal settings, so I was missing alot of good tone, by being impatient. ..Like you, I was soooo inspired by Landau's awesome tone, that I started looking into his rig. I bought a set of ML pickups and a Fender ML Deville. and couldnt get the sounds that ML got. So I bought a RAT pedal, and didnt like that either UNTIL I decided to try it into the power amp in jack..Wow what a difference. Anyways, I appreciate your in depth explanation of how these things work together. You covered alot of ground. Thanks!

Thank you for that amazing demo and explanation, i'm considering buying one to use with my Marshall Origin 20.

Great phrasing! 🎸 😎 😮

You're playing makes me think you are Jeff Beck's long lost brother. Fantastic!! Super useful video even though I'm using a version of this on the HX Stomp. Your SG sound was massive!

Great Lukather style sound

In addition to the different EQ properties between the SD-9 and TS, the SD-9 is a hard clipping circuit with diode clippers after the opamp stage, and TS is a soft clipping circuit with diodes in the feedback loop of the opamp. The SD is more akin to the MXR D+ and ProCo Rat in this regard.

Well thought

Definitely the most comprehensive dive into the SD9 I've come across, super helpful insights! A couple of questions, I saw your response to another comment that the cab/speaker was from the UAD SE100 plugin, but what particular cab/speaker/mic combo within the SE100 were you running? Also, how does the Helix's Hedgehog drive model hold up vs the original, and how do you dial it in to match your real SD9 settings?

I have the rare maxon sd-01, an sd9 in the 01 series in the eighties by maxon. Its probably the best distortion pedal out there.

Nice tones. I got an original sd9 from a swap meet 2 years ago for $100! Love it! I do have to fix the switch tho as its stuck on. Ive been using it with a bypass loop pedal but i have been thinking about sending it out to analog man to get it freshened up. It looks really cool with the paint all chipped off and beat up.

Thx man

Mine is autographed by Warren and has some extra mojo to it 😁

Nice

I remember having a Maxon SD9 as a backup distortion but after someone spilled beer on my pedalboard. I had to come up with a new pedalboard. So there goes the Maxon SD9 as my main distortion and still continues to be. Now I have the vintage Ibanez SD9, Maxon SD9 and the Custom Shop Maxon SSD9.

Lady P 🔥

Great in depth details about the pedal Warren. I'm going to tweak mine after seeing your settings. Do you think it responds differently to batteries?

Awesome Video, man! Appreciate that after all these years a video came and share the HOW TO equalize this pedal, as without the proper context ( guitar knobs and amp settings), the resulting audio is a jar of mosquitos. Thank you for sharing! I have kept this pedal with me just for this reason (if Henderson & Landau made it work, then there is a hack) despite the hours put trying to find the right audio for me without the desired results. I have found the approximate audio you suggest in the video in the past( with base clean tone, just for ref), but have not been able to nail the bass eq yet, thus keep up with my amp drive and odr1... In my use case, in order to find that base sweetspot (balance), I end up rolling the bass knob in my mesa f50 combo clean channel, but when I switch the pedal off back to my clean channel, my audio gets sort of baseless (sterile)... I would like to get your thoughts on this and know if you have faced the issue, particularly with humbucker guitars, which is what I play. Thank you and again, awesome video!

Great playing and tone Warren! What speakers and cab are you using? Thanks for your video!

My favorite drive and have been using one from the 80s for 10 years now. I run mine with VOLUME all the way up, TONE at about 9 or 10 o'clock depending on the guitar and GAIN set at 9. I love it as a beefy TS style pedal. I've tried a lot of variations like Vertex Dynamic Drive and the XTS Tonic Distortion. They come close but just aren't the same as the one I use. I also stack the SD9 with a J. Rockett Allan Holdsworth pedal and a Wampler Ego mini. A ton of different flavors to add to a great pedal. Did you see that TWA came out with SH-9 pedal? Been waiting for it to ship and hoping it'll be great. GREAT VIDEO, I subscribed.

Have you tried the XTS Tonic Distortion? I don’t have an SD9 to compare the settings with. Just thinking through how to apply what I’m learning here. Great video, great tones!

Hey Warren! Thanks so much for the video. I got the SD-9 after watching this and I am super happy with the sound. I have a question, I remember seeing Suhr Riot and an Eclipse on ur pedalboard a while back. How would u describe that sound compared to the SD-9??

Strasan ton😎

You got all the landau gear. Can i come over and hang out ha ha.. i had a pedal board made by dave phillips who does landaus. I was able to get a voodoo1 and live wire reverb pedal from landau. Needless to say i have the voodoo1 and sd9 .. play it through my 58 super tweed. Sounds fuzzy kranked. Just love it.

In the intro sound, is it just SD9 or is there a bit of Octafuzz too ? Thank you for your time and for your sharing 👍

Good demo! The maxon sd9 can make fuzz??

What do you think about the output of the pedal, I’ve been using it for months but at my ears it has much less volume than a standard boss pedal. Do you agree with me?

素晴らしいです

So with the SD9 level all the way up, doesn’t it throw off how you’d have to set any other gain pedals level? Cause if I’m using several other gain pedals on their own, and I’ve set their levels to how I like them then this one sd9 pedal is likely to be overly hot. I get the tone is best that way but kind of a drag that it’ll throw level settings off or require different level settings on my other pedals. Nice playing and video regardless

Someone's been listening to way too much Henderson :D

oh man.. i think you reached tone master level... how come there is no noise at all from single coil?

Maxon made the original tube screamer. Made it for ibanez

It reminds me a little bit of the Nobels ODR-1..

Anyone know a good clone of this pedal?

What amp?

Maxon Sd - 9, just like Boss Ds-1, really shines when in front of an already overdriven pedal or amp channel. On dead clean channel it sounds pretty rubbish.

Alot of work to get a pedal to sound good. Many other pedals less finicky and sound just as good if not better.

Brilliant video. Maxon OD-9 into SD-9 has been my go-to stack for years now. If you’re like me and need a clean amp for gigs, this is the only way you do it. By the way if you go full Landau mode and use a volume pedal after SD-9 (I use FV500H), it takes all of these tones to another dimension because you can compensate for turning down on guitar, so you can have any gain level at any volume level without having to switch anything on or off. I think also worth mentioning is that SD-9 is very picky about power source - it sounds awful on almost any power supply and it sounds almost as bad on alkaline battery. So if you haven’t already, try your SD-9 with carbon-zinc battery (preferably Eveready) and you’ll never think it sounds shrill again. Also any buffer further down the chain will make it sound fizzy. It’s an absolute brat of a pedal but it’s worth it.